9-letter words containing c, a, l, v
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- overclass — a social stratum consisting of educated and wealthy people considered to control the economic power of a country.
- overclean — too clean
- overclear — too clear
- overscale — larger or more extensive than normal or usual; outsize; oversize.
- pcv valve — a valve used to control and direct the flow of gases during positive crankcase ventilation.
- percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
- piacevole — (to be performed) in a pleasant, agreeable manner
- placative — placatory.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- relevance — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- relevancy — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- revocable — that may be revoked.
- revocably — that may be revoked.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- slavicism — Slavism.
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- vacaville — a city in central California.
- vacillant — wavering; hesitant; indecisive; vacillating.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vacuolate — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- valencies — valence.
- vallecula — a furrow or depression.
- van vleck — John H(asbrouck) [haz-broo k] /ˈhæz brʊk/ (Show IPA), 1899–1980, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1977.
- varicella — chickenpox.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- vaticinal — of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
- veal calf — a calf, esp one bred for eating
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- vehicular — of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
- vellicate — to pluck; twitch.
- veridical — truthful; veracious.
- vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- vicegeral — of or relating to a vicegerent or a vicegerent's position.
- vicennial — of or for 20 years.
- viceregal — of or relating to a viceroy.
- victualer — a person who furnishes victuals, especially a sutler.
- vigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- vin blanc — white wine.
- viricidal — of or relating to viricides; destroying viruses
- virilocal — Anthropology. living with or located near the husband's father's group; patrilocal.
- virucidal — an agent for destroying viruses.
- vocabular — a vocabulary
- vocal fry — a voice quality characterized by a low pitch and raspy sound and produced by a slow fluttering of the vocal cords: There's too much vocal fry in her speaking voice.
- vocal sac — either of the loose folds of skin on each side of the mouth in many male frogs that can be inflated and act as resonators
- vocalised — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.